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A US-Russian dual national working for Radio Free Europe has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a foreign agent, the US-funded news organization reported Wednesday.

Since his arrest on charges of espionage just over a month ago, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been held in Russia’s most notorious prison, Lefortovo, located in a leafy residential district of Moscow.   Its impenetrable walls once muffled the cries of Soviet-era political prisoners tortured and executed by security officers during Stalin’s purges.  While bullets no longer fly in Lefortovo’s holding cells, the prison’s central role in Russia’s system of political ...

Journalist Evan Gershkovich, 31, was arrested by Russian authorities in the city of Yekaterinburg last month on espionage charges.

My friend and colleague Nick Daniloff has an important op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal about his time in a Soviet prison in 1986, comparing his ordeal to that of Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who was recently arrested by Vladimir Putin's thugs. At the time of his own arrest, Daniloff was a reporter for…

An American journalist who was expelled from the Soviet Union explains why the arrest of a Wall Street Journal reporter in Moscow bodes ill for relations with the Kremlin.

Court says Evan Gershkovich will be held until at least May 29. Russian journalists and deputy FM raise prospect of prisoner exchange.

Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been arrested in Russia on suspicion of espionage, the first time a US journalist has been detained on accusations by Moscow of spying

Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was detained in the eastern city of Yekaterinburg, on suspicion of collecting "secret information" about a Russian defense company, according to a translated version of the Federal Security Service (FSB)'s statement on Thursday. 

A Wall Street Journal reporter has been arrested in Russia on suspicion of espionage, the first time an American journalist has been detained on accusations by Moscow of spying since the Cold War.

The crime Griner is accused of carries a possible punishment of 5-10 years in prison.